The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1887-03-08


the face of it. chat is not very much;
but II he has acquaintance, and nearly
| every clerk has he gets good deal more.
| for pocket money. For instance, if he is
clever he will manage to dine or take
| tea or perhaps both meals out every
| Sunday. On such occasions he also
foregoeS breakfast. with the result that
he saves l. 10ld. or in the year "a las
Cd. I'm fact every meal that he saves,
and he watches every opportunity for
doing 80. is so much i'm his pocket for
sundrieS. extra iinery or saving fund.
''Oh. forgot Ia say how he manages
to dine for eightpence. Under ordinary
circumstances he buys plate of beef
for >iNpence. potatoes penny. thick
slice of bread penny. waiter-he must
never be forgottem-penny. That's
nimrpcnce. YOU SAY. Certainly. but TO
offset that. three day>a week he will 90
Ia It'll "A la mode beef-hou>e. where he
will ret plate of delicious beef stew
for fourpence. bread q penny. potatoes
"a penny. waiter penny: in all. seven
pence do YOU see? These a Ia mode
becf-huu>eS. by the WAY, are frequcnted
by the richest men in the city, 81 the
poor clerks cheap dinner is in no way
infra dig.
II think. continued the merchant,
"ihat in my time | have employed
hundreds of Young men "a clerks
and have watched their
WAYS. The ambitious ones. "a
small minority. either rise some
how or other To important positions
with wages, SAY, of two or at most three
pounds q week. ar else find their WAY
into some more prosperous undertaking.
The majority. however. remain at
pound until either >habbine>s, lack of
SmartnPsS or marriage drives them to
the wall or probably the wurkhouse.
lin his early wears his WAYS are most
Interesting. He is up to all manner of
lodges to save his clothes or Ia seize
what he considers la Ice honest per-
quiSites i'm the shape of odd sheets of
note paper. pens. envelopes. etc. for
private correspondence at home. He
saves his boots by putting on list slip
prr> i'm the office: he wears an old rag
of coat: he ties little apron over his
WaiStcoat 80 IL not to hurt il when
leaning against a desk. and of course
hr takes off hi~ cuffs think cuffs
were invented for clerks. When. how
ever. he arrives in the morning, or
goes out for his midday lunch. he is
simply lovely To- look al that is. the
careful and tidy fifty-pound clerk.
His tall hat-every city clerk in Lon
don wears a tall hat-@liStcnS in the
sun. His cellar j. up Ia his ears and
his cuffs cover hi~ knucklr> and the
r,>i of him i IN full harmony. Now.
there YOU have him and how he can
live Let the same man have ten,
twenty or thirty pounds more and he
marrir@ If he remains single he j.
regarded in his particular circle as a
bachelor of orulencc. and he really is.
Now. as Ia the social position of
these men. They nearly all belong to
what i known a. the middle class.
They regard Shopmen "a persons be-
heath their station. and probably their
fathers We're unsuccessful doctors. law
yrrS. officers of the army and navy or
something else i'm the great community
of pOorly-paid professional men in
England. But You just put AN all
vertisemcnt in an English paper for
clerk at pound Il week. and / will
guarantee that YOU have several hum
dred answers. once knew an
auctionecr and surveyor i'm Great
George street. Westminster. who few
years ago advertised for Il copying
clerk; salary one pound per week.
Answers came by the thousand from
naval and military officers and fathers
of families, begging for the position 10
save them from starvation. - hilddcL-
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